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S. GOLDBERG.

DISPLAY FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED 020.5. 1918.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

NI E sTATEsPATENT OFFICE. V

. ffsAMUEI. eonnisnne, or New YORK, N. Y;., ASSIGNOBEO UNIVERSAL FIXTURE CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DISI LAY-FIXTURE.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GOLDBERG, a

I citizen of the United States, and resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and

State of New York, have invented'certain 'new and useful Improvements in Display Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in swinging panels for display fixtures. One of the principal objects of the invention is the provision of a swingingpanel for display racks in which disk records for phonographs andthe like may be readily inserted and removed, and wherein the records will be protected from injury and will be so displayed that their titles will be in view.

Another object of the invention is to provide a display rack for disk records i'nwhich each disk record will be supported 'in a pocket attached to the panel, the pockets being arranged one above the other so that the record supported in one pocket will overlie the pocket next above and thereby assist in holding the pockets close to the supporting panel.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a panel constructed in accordance with this invention, mounted in a suitable supporting means;

Fig. 2 a vertical sectional view on the line IIII of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 a detail horizontal sectional view of a portion of the panel, taken on the line III-III of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 a detail perspective view of a portion of the pocket-supporting board removed from the panel frame.

Referring to the various parts by numerals, 1 designates a swinging panel support which is mounted upon a vertical rod 2 and is formed with the flange 3 at its upper end and a similar flange 4 at its lower end. The rod 2 is supported by brackets 5 which may be suitably secured to the wall 6 or othersuitable rigid support.

The swinging panel consists of a rigid frame formed of an inner vertical rod 7,

and an outer vertical rod 8, said rods being I connected together. near their lower ends by a rigid bar 9. The bars 7, 8 and 9 sup-- port a channel frame 10 having its open side within the frame, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The upper ends of. the two side Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

Application filed December 5, 1918. Serial No. 265,395.

members of the channel frame 10 are open, and sald ends are closed by a removable channel bar 11, said bar, when in position, making the channel frame complete.

Removably secured within the channel frame 10 is a panel board 12,'the lower end of said 'board resting within the channel frame member 10 supported on the bar 92 This panel board is provided on opposite sides with transversely extending pockets 13, said pockets being arranged one above the other, the bottom of one pocket being slightly above the open upper edge ofthe next pocket below, as indicated clearly in Fig. 1. Each pocket is provided with a'cut-out part 14 at its upper edge. The pockets may be constructed in any suitable manner and of any suitable material. It is necessary, however, that they shall be strongly made and that they 'shall 'lie fiat against the panel board.

The ends of the pockets extend to the vertical side edges of the panel board and, therefore, when the anel board is placed within the channel f f'ame the ends of the pocket material are within the side channel frames and are protected thereby.

By mounting the panel board within a channel frame the board is held against undue lateral motion and is maintained in a straight vertical position under considerable crushing strain. By arranging the panel board so that it will be securely supported, and yet may be swung from side to side in order to display the disk records supported on both sides thereof, the board can be made light and of thin material while at the same time it will be sufficiently strong to support the double series of disk records.

The pockets 13 are designed to receive disk records for phonographs and like machines, said records being indicated at 15 in Fig. 1. The pockets are referably deep enough to receive about onealf of the record, and the cut-out parts 14 permit a display of the record title, said title being printed in the center of the disks. The pockets are so arranged that the upper part of one record will over-lie the pocket next above so that the records and the pockets are interlocked and lie flat against the anel board.

As shown in the drawings, the pockets are secured on both sides of the panel board.

It is manifest from the foregoing that a display rack constructed in accordance wlth V and compact means for displayingdisk rec- NVhatfI claimisi ords'. The-j i nvention provides a display rack which may be secured in a convenient position in a display room or sa1esroom; and i n which the titles of the records may be're'adily viewed and in which the records ill fbez i' veryraccessible to the prospective purchaser play'rack and used, the. racks 11.;A display fixtiire" for exhihit'ing disk phonograph records having titles printedat their centers," compr sing a rectangular frame thelside members of which are provided ivith inwardly facing vchannela means for sup-t porting said frame in an upright position, a paneljboa rd held in said'oframe with: the side 7 edgesjthereofjeonfined in' the channels inthe sidemenihers of the frame,;and arve rti cal series of, relatively narrow, strips jofinatenialextending transversely of the panel I board and having their end edges confined'in the channels in the side 1 members of the frame; said strips of material v beingL'secu-red along their lower edges and at the ends only of their upper edges to'the panel board. with 5 the npperedge of each'stripihelow and elose to the lower edge of the next higher strip;

and each of rs a id stripsbeing ofless-Width midway its ends *than 'at'the' sides of the V panel board.

formed ofinivardly facing channels, means transversely extending pockets secured to edges of said pockets heing confined Within the channels ot jthey Side members I ofi the-M 'frame-{aridprotectedThy said channels,f each' of said'poeketsbeirig of sliflicientgdepth' to: receive only One-half of arecord;f ivhereby p the upper portion ofthe record in one pocket Will overlie the pocket next abovell Intestimony 'vvhereof a signature.

'QQA- display fixtureforj displaying disk records, comprising a; rigid rectangi lar "framehaving side andi bottom member's i and may be readily're noved from the disand then returned to j SAMUEL GO DB RGQQ i a copes etfithis patent may gbe nbtainahfor' iiwec en'ts 6501i; by addressing the Commissioner ofjratciits, I

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